Albrecht Durer Signature Monogram

Artist Albrecht Durer signed many of his numerous paintings, drawings, woodcut prints, engravings, watercolors and even sketches with his distinctive AD monogram, his initials nested inside one another. In the Renaissance era after Gutenberg when use of the printing press spread throughout Europe, Durer was one of the first artists to exploit the new technology to disseminate prints and engravings of his work, all stamped with his trademark monogram which cemented his fame everywhere. This replica image is one of several variants of the design that Durer used through his long career. Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) was a German painter of the Northern Renaissance and also an engraver, printmaker, mathematician and theorist whose woodcut prints and theoretical treatises secured his reputation as one of the greatest artists of Europe. His many paintings, portraits, altarpieces, watercolors, and engravings were the first in the Northern Renaissance to use classical motifs from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. The art of landscape painting began with his watercolors. Durer’s unparalleled skill in drawing and engraving as well as mastery of perspective allowed him rapid execution of a range of motifs which elicit universal admiration to this day.